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SKDKnickerbocker partner Anita Dunn tops the Observer PR Power 50, which was publioshed today, for the role that the longtime Democratic operative played in the Biden/Harris campaign. Jon Silvan, CEO of Global Strategy Group, and Sally Susman, executive VP/chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer, rank next.
The Lisbon PR Awards, which honors categories such as brand activation, media relations and integrated marketing, has extended its entry submission date to June 22... Dragon Horse Ad Agency’s Recycle campaign for the Collier County Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Division in southwestern Florida earns Silver Telly Award... R&J Strategic Communications' Rebecca Smith honored by New Jersey Advertising Club.
Cannes Lions, which last month pushed back its 2020 festival of creativity from June to October 26-30 due to the "challenging circumstances" presented by the coronavirus pandemic, has now pulled the plug on the 2020 festival.
PRSA-NY has postponed the 2020 Big Apple Awards, originally scheduled for June 16, to Sept. 30. The award entry deadline has been pushed back to Friday, June 5.
Richard Edelman will become the first PR firm executive to be inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame of the American Advertising Federation.
Jon Gingerich, senior editor of O’Dwyer’s, has won The Saturday Evening Post’s “2020 Great American Fiction Contest.”
Italian journalist Paolo Borrometi, known for his reporting on the Sicilian mafia, received the 2019 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism at a ceremony at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism on Sept. 25.
Weber Shandwick executive chairman Andy Polansky will receive the 2019 IPR Alexander Hamilton Medal for Lifetime Achievement at the IPR Annual Distinguished Lecture & Awards Dinner on Nov. 19 at New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel.
The deadline for nominations for the 2020 Matrix Awards, which honor prominent women in the communications industry, is August 9.
Weber Shandwick CEO Andy Polansky accepted the John W. Hill Award, PRSA/New York's top honor, during the Big Apple Awards ceremony held last night at the Mandarin Oriental in New York.
Washington Women in Public Relations presented six up and coming female communicators with its 2019 Emerging Leaders Awards on June 18.
The Publicity Club of Chicago’s 60th Golden Trumpet Awards honored the city's top PR talent, including its "Member of the Year," Zapwater CEO David Zapata, on June 6.
Susan Magrino and Sally Susman were the PR honorees among the eight winners of the 2019 Matrix Awards that were handed out May 6 at the Sheraton New York Times Square on May 6.
Andrea Mitchell was one of four top female political reporters honored at the sixth annual Washington Women in Journalism Awards on April 26.